Trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

Trickle: Linux Bandwidth Shapers

Rate-limiting tool for Linux, limiting bandwidth use by processes or networks, useful for backups and downloads

What is Trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper?

Trickle is an open-source bandwidth shaper and rate limiter for Linux. It allows limiting the download and upload bandwidth used by a process or group of processes to prevent them from consuming all available network capacity.

Some common uses of Trickle include:

• Rate-limiting large downloads or backups to avoid disruption
• Simulating slow network connections for testing
• Throttling bandwidth-heavy processes like torrent clients
• Prioritizing critical network traffic over bulk transfers

Trickle works by intercepting network sockets opened by processes and throttling the bandwidth available to them. It can limit traffic globally or per network interface. Rules can be set for specific processes or groups of processes based on attributes like user ID, process ID, etc.

Key features of Trickle include:

• Lightweight and low overhead
• Flexible rule-based bandwidth shaping
• Can limit global or per-interface usage
• Open source and available for Linux distributions

If you need to rate-limit processes to prevent them from utilizing all network capacity, Trickle provides an easy way of accomplishing it without making changes to the processes themselves.

Trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper Features

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